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Cleverness

Nike | The Quote | Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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I just read in a book: “If you were half as clever as you think you are, you’d be twice as clever as you are.”

I liked that. There are quite some people I’d like to tell that. :)

Good is the enemy of great…

Nike | The Quote | Monday, January 11th, 2010

I have to insert a “quote of the day” which I read at work.

“Good is the enemy of great.

And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have great government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”

Jim Collins, Business Coach.

The Quote

Nike | The Quote | Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
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Fairy tales are more than true:

Not because they  tell us that dragons exist, but because the tell us that dragons can be beaten.

G.K. Chesterton

A new Quote of the Moment

Nike | The Quote | Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
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So Carl Jung has ruled The Quote long enough.

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

Carl Jung

It’s time for something new.

“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence.”

Jean de la Bruyere

Quote of the Moment: Creativity

Nike | The Quote | Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

Carl Jung

Quote of the moment: J.F.K.

Nike | The Quote | Saturday, November 25th, 2006
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“The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

John F. Kennedy

Quote of the moment: All we see and all we seem…

Nike | The Quote | Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
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“All we see and all we seem
is just a dream within a dream”

? E.A. Poe

Quote of the moment: Stupidity

Nike | The Quote | Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

Quote of the Moment: Dream

Nike | The Quote | Friday, August 25th, 2006
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“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”

Dream, in SANDMAN #19: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

(by Neil Gaiman)